The assessment of sexual assault prevention and awareness center for university students

Abstract

Preventing sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment and stalking in university settings is essential for college student’s well-being. Many researchers pointed out the university environment can be a high risk of experi-encing sexual assault. However, few studies examined the volunteers’ experiences in prevention efforts as well as the assessment of the events in prevention centers in universities. This article explores the educational and support services at the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) in Michigan. It focus-es on the effectiveness of the Networking, Publicity, and Activism program for the university community. This paper draws on the author’s own experiences of taking a position to volunteer at SAPAC. Force Field Analysis and SWOT analysis were implemented to identify specific needs and future objectives to change. To achieve change through survivors, collaboration and raising the awareness about sexualized violence in the university community were discussed